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. . - :-'ivrAII.S. . _.. Anal ' ar—t Malta, a Dublin, r Waterford. IJus--1 Ca diz, I Libbon, I Waterford. 1' EI S UN. SOLE:4 QUIS pletßE PALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDOIV. MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 18'10. The Carteret Packet is arrived. from the Mediter ranean. She brings dispatches from Messina up to the 25th of Jtine, and from Gibraltar to the 25th' July. The 'Enemy's preparations (or the invasion of Si cily are carrying on with great activity, but their . completion appears to have been much retard ed by the a6livity of our ships of war, and of the flotilla, belonging to the British army which has distinguished itself by various successful attacks upon the French gUn-boats, and upon the convoys coming from Naples and Salerno, with artillery and warlike stores. • . . The formidable batteries which the. French had construaed along the coast of Calabria, served in genc!ral to protea the assemblage of the small craft, and several hundred boats were colleaed at Eufem 13, Pidmi; and Scilla. MURAT remained encamped . with an army above Sc' ila : his army was es, imated at 2 . 5,000 men, com manded by Generals LA MARQUE;GRBNIER, &c. The tu'rtifications which the .British had thrown up on the Sicilian coast ,were very strong, and were daily improving;- and such was the spirit and enierprize of our flotilla, and the excellence of the troops under General STUART, that , very little ap prehension was entertained of the result of an attack. If the attack should be delayed; the enemy's force will perish by the malignant-feretto which Calabria is subject in the hot months. • As we know by the French Papers that no ac count had been received at Paris, up to the 3d init. of.anyattempt to cross the streight, we may infer that the enemy did not feel himself strong enough, to make the attempt so late as the middla of July, by which time the fever would have commenced its ravages. . Letters from Gibraltar state, that the French had wade an attack upon the little castle of St. Louis, garrisoned by 200 Spaniards. The enemy endea voured to•carry the place by assault, but the garri son, assisted by the fire of his Majesty's ship Imneri ruse, and some small craft, repulsed them with the loss of above 600 tnen. General BALLAs'rzitos, with a small division, had penetrated into the rear of Vlcron's and cut off several convoys of provisions, after which be retreated without any loss. Accounts from Malaga were received at Gibralta on the 23d ult. which state, that the French garri son had began to evacuate that place, being recalled by a sudden and pressing order to the neighbourhood of Seville, where the Enemy's force is understood to be much weakened and exposed. A paragraph having appeared in most of the Daily Papers, stating a proposal that " we should take Spanish .and Portuguese Prisoners in ex.: change for French, and that we should admit the Portuguese and Spaniards to be exchanged 'first, and our own last, is said to have been acceded to by our Ministers, and that the arrangement, oh these laSt mentioned principles, has been refer red by the French Commissioner at Morlaix, to, his GOvernment," • we beg leave to assure our Readers, in the'rnaSt positive manner, and from the beet authority, that there is not one word of -truth in this statement. Our Readers will find in the Gazette the official account of the aaion between General CRAWFUED, and a &vision of AIASSENA'S Ariny, the substance of which we stated on Saturday. The amount of the enemy's force is not thentioned in the Gazette, but according to private letters, it consisted of 3,600 ca valry and 8,000 infantry ; while General CAAWFORD had only 4,000 infantry and 600 cavalry. Notwith- stslidipg this immense disparity of force, the enemy were completely repulsed in all their attacks, with the loss we believe, of upwards of 700 killed and wounded. We are extremely happy to find that 'the Poituguese troops displayed, during the whole of thii severe aftiou, the greatest - steadiness and • brat ery. A very general opinion appeared to preyail in the army; when . the last Lewis came away, that a ge neral action would speedily take place froth the cir curnsrance of Lord WM.LINGTON having, concen trated his army. That a battle will be fought is by no means itrprobable, but we - do not think' that event so near as it is represented in.some of the Let ters. In consequence of the retreat of the British army, the enemy were enabled to invest Almeida eottplately .and it is not likely that ony . battie "take place during the progress of ti.e siege. „ . Yesterlay morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Au- GUSTA and Soi.ntA; accompanied. by Lady Cot.- LY ER and General WY NYARD, went to St. George's Chapel, Winds,tir, and heard a Sermon preached by the Rev: Mr. NORTH EY : they, afterwards returned to the Palace-. Princess AmeLIA contitiues in a mending-state. Yesterday was. tine Prince df \VALES's Bitth-day ; his Royal Highness completed his 48th-year. The morning was ushered in with the ringing of bells throughout London and the country, and which was continued during the day. The standards on the Church steeples, the Tower, and other public build ings, weie•displayed. It is.'now generally undefstood that the troops embarked, and those under, immediate orders for embarkation; are not going to Portugal, but are destined to make a diversion to the northward. Sir HOME POPHAM, we understand, left to kV n yesterday fer Portsmouth, iriconsequ nice of his being appoint ed to take a command in the nautical department of the intended expedition. An order haS been issued from the War Office, for not more than one-fourth of each battalion of the regular intantry and militia stationed in the _Kent district to be employed in getting in the harvest, and it is left entirely in the power of the. Commanding Officer whether any, or what part of that number 'shall be so employed. Admirals Earl NORTIIESK, Sirs R. STRACHAN and STIRLING, were on Friday last admitted to the free dotn and livery of the. Goldsmith's Company, and were afterwards most sumptuously entertained at dinner by the Wardens of that Company at the Hall. Mr. ROBERT WILLIAMS, j uu. M. P. as Prime War den, presided on - the occasion, and took the Chair at dinner, at which were present several .eminent , Naval and Military Charaders. The Chairman, a very handsome speech, .proposed the health pt the new Membe'rs of the Company., and paid a just tri bute to the loyalty and patriotism of the great body of the Citizens of London, among. whom, he the greatest, Statesmen and Heroes had not disdained to enrol themselves, ar.ct made a feeling allusion to the immortal names of PITT and NELSON. It is • needless to - add, that many loyal and constitutional toasts were drank, and the utmost conviviality pre vailed. • - On the 4th inst. Capt. Manby made an experi ment on the beach at Cromer, of throwing ilk new-conStruEted grapple-shot, attached to a lire, from a mortar, for the purpose of giving relief to' vessels in diStress on a lee-shore, and w here the sea washes far upon it, or a distance from the land. By this happy invention, a more instantaneous communi cation may be formed with the vessel sand pilots ccn veyed with certainty and dispatch, when every other effort is impraehcable ; thereby the lives of our brave seamen preserved ; and the valuable property •of our merchants and owners rescued from destruction. In the first experiment, the grapple and 14 inch line were projected, With 12oz. of powder across a rope moored to two anchors, and suspended in the middle by a buoy, upwards• of 200 yards from the water's edge.—The grapple keeping a firm hold, the life-boat was launched from its carriage, and quickly hauled to the spot where the supposed ves sel in distress laid, and sheaved what might have been done by the hands sent out, to save the crew, the cargo, and the vessel, even if the supposed hands on board had been incapable of making any efforts ,to assist themselves. A shot at tached to a log-line was then thrown from the mor tar, along the beach, with the same quantity of ,powder, to the distance of 404 yards; %%Inch was alloWed by the seafaring men present to be as far as any s cases of distress upon our coasts might require. The -following is an account, of the terms *Ton which the_French Government is disposed to allow -a commercial intercourse, by means of neutralyessels, with this country. It is extracted trout an official document, dated July 0: • . The licenses will be granted but for such ports as are already pointed out. The license will remain in force for six months, ,but shall be . sub niitted each voyage to the inspeCtion of the Minis ter of Marine, with a declaration of the Master of what he has done, and ihe occurrences of the voyage. The license shall be delivered gratuitously. " The outward cargoes must consist of wine and French brandies to the extent of one-sixth of the tonnage of the ves€el (t0..0e ascertained by the tonnage on _which she psys her duties), and- the five sixths to consist at the discretion of the, shippers, .of wipe, brandy, gum,,herbs, seed, fruit, and the product of French manuiatures and salt, of which the exportation may not be prohibited by the regulations of the CUstoms. The import cargoes shall consist of timber, hemp, raw materials, iron, bark, drugs, rice, Rus sia t•Illow, wax;' linseed, fi•laoil, pitch, tar, pota toes, shumack, dollars, lead, minium, tin, white lead, arsenic, dried hides in the hair, wainscot, and •Nothing - is altered in the prior regulations respecting.the destination of vessels." The only objection on the part of Oyu Govern ment (and that . we fear is insuperable) -to this sche dule of articles allowed to be imported into France, is, that .nether 'British „manufacture's nor colonial produce are included in it. The admission of these, we understand, is a sine qua non of the arrange ment. ft is stated in the New York Papers, on the au thority of an America❑ Captain, arrived at New York, that the Rainbow sloop of war had, on the 6th of June, off Porto Rico - , a severe engagement with a large French frigate, which escaped in the night.-- The Rainbow, it is added, had several men killed, and sustained mush damage in her hull and rigging. A-report was prevalent on the 16th tilt. both at Boston and New-York, on the.authority of corn municatiens from the Havannah, that .disttirbances had broken out at "Mexcio, and that the Governor, with several Ecclesiastics, had been arrested. Hamturgh arrespondentens have reached town to the - ist ins!.• At Zwalt, Deventer, Zutphen, Does burgh, and several other places, there had been some disturbances, in consequence of the oppressions of ,he French. terer. NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH, AUG. I (").—it: was not the Ptincess .illigusta packet that arrived hire yesterday; bot the Princess Charlotte, Capt.KErtit,'"from Lisbon, with waits, in twelve days, overshot FalMouth on Wed neSday night; she has brou / ght over several passer gers, among whom are some•Offieers from the Bri tish Army. Arrived his Majesty's ship 'Shannon from off Brest; the Dispatch, SATTLEY; and . Commerce, WILLCOCKS, 'from Wales. • ; Sailed. his Majesty's ships' Ulysses,• .Espied le, Sy 'Lille, and Gleaner. AUG: 1 I.—Arrived a transport from the Coast of Spain,- in two days ; she brings no particular news ; also arrived his Majesty's ship' Gleaner frour a cruize ; the Pi ince William, BIWANS ; Fiaory, , DA VIES; Princess Royal, J.A.11; and Princess Royal; RICHARDS, from Wales. Sailed the Shark cartel for Morlaix, with sidk,. wounded, and infirm French prisoners ; also sailed the Princess Charlotte packet. for Falmouth; and the Harriet, WESLBY, for London. PORTSMOUTH, Aug.l2.—Passed by yesterday morning the Duckenfield, from Grenada; several passengers have been landed at ibis port from her. Came in yesterday his Majesty's ships Ullisses and Nereus, the former frou_Plymouth, and the latter from the Eastward ; also the Hope from a cruize off Cherbourgh. Arrived the - Experiment, Coonn,' from. Milford; and the Thomas and Mary, GODFIt EY, ,from Exeter. Sailed, this day his Majesty's ,ships Aymph and ;Guadatoupe for the Downs. Arrived the Two Brothers, SPARROW, from Neath. Cattle into the harbour this day the ship Zephyr, ComNßLL,from Guadeloupe, having French,prison ers on board. DOVER, AUG. .1 I.—Part of the hotheward-bound Leeward I fieet, -under convoy of ,a 74, passed by to : day for the River. • • • A detachment of. artillery marched from hence this morning, undei the cornm,and ofCapt.CßAuroan, to Portsmouth, for embarkation. SHEERNESS, AUG. 1 1.---Anived his Atijesty's brig Elvin. Came into the Little Nore his Majesty's brig Ban= DEAL, AUG. 12:—Sailed his Majesty's ships Ber wick and Owen Glendower; the former on n erni:ze, and the latter for Plymouih. A large fleet Of outward-boonnd remtin, detained by contrary winds; also several transports, with the 6th and 38th Regiment's for Ireland. FALMOL 111, AUG. 10.—Artived 'the Carteret packer, Capt. DAVEY, from Malta and . . Gibraltar ; 1G days horn the latter place. EDINBURGH, AUG. 9.—On Saturday the Fancy • gun-br►g arrived in Leith Roads. Duffing her cruize she fell in with three cutter-rigged privateers; which' she ehased - for a considerable time, until they_got too near the shore for her to risk a further pursuit. They, however, being soon reinforced by several gun-boats, in their turn gave chase to the Fancy, which only escaped being captured by 'the 4101 of her Officers and the exertions of her crew, who were. at the sweeps for four successive hours. The Rosenbown, Hamburgh Greenland-ship, sent in by the Rover sloop, bas been released, and sailed on Monday for Hamburgh. The Albion, KIDD, of Dundee, from Lisbon, with olives and goats hides, was accidently burnt on the 2cd ; crew saved. On Monday a 'boy fell from the rigging of one of t he vessels in the new wet dock, and was unfortu nately killed on the ipot. • GREENOCK, AUG. t o.—Extrael of a letter from -St. John's, Newfoundland, received in this town : " Capt. M`LACIILAN, of the Magnet, on his passage from Lisbon to this place, about 15 Acagues to the Eastward of 40. St.: Frances; saw, t;Too Ge top of an island of ice, the bodies of six or eight dead men. He endeavoured all he could to get to them in his boat, to see and bring them to land, but owing to Ole island being very swep,-ne could not effeCt a land ing, so was frustrated in his generous intention." The following Commanders have been lately promoted to the rank of Post-Captains Captains C. J. Austen, Speltnan Swaine (of the Philoinel), Francis Beaufort (of the Mbssom), Ben jamin Walker, Wm. Charlton, John .Maxwell, Philip Browne,. W. B. Bradby.—The following Lieutenants are promoted to Commandeq :—Lieu tenants Henry, Wildey, James Molineinc, Thomas Barclay, Henry Jane, G. H. Guion, D. Lawrence, Wm. Stewart (late Flag Officer to Sir Roger Curtio,. T. S. Groi , e, P. Proctor, G. W..Willts, Henry' Thompson, R. Lisle Coulson; Hayes O'Grady, Henry Weir. There were 52 Midshipinen. pro- . cooled to Lieutenants in May, and - 22 in June. NAVAL APPOINThIgt4S.-Rear-Adilliral Otway, to command at Leith, in the room of Sir Edmund Na4le ; Rear-Admiral Sir Charks Hamilton, to succeed Adinirai Otixav in the `_command in the River ; Reat'-Admiial' . -Picknaore, to be Captain of the Mediterianean Fleet ; Captain Bayntun, to be Paying Contruissioner vt Plymouth, in the room of Ad:niral I. Peileu• ; Sir Koine Popham, to the Ve7terable ; Captain'A. Mackenzie, to the Armada; Captain Guinn, to the Phi:o7nel Capt. J. Stewar'., to the Blossom. PRIVATE CORRESPONEENCE. Head-quarters of the British Army, A iverca, July 25, You will be naturally anxious to bear of out operations' in this quarter,' whic:r every day becomes rnitre and more inter'esting. After the fall of Ciudad Roderigo, the•gallant garrison were marched off for France, but many hundreds of them will never reach their destination. The barbarous enemy, according to authentic accounts, were daily destroying those .brave men, who, exhausted through fatigue, and the extraordinary. exertions 'they, have made for tbkir country's cause, were no longer enabled to - proceed on their way. These vietitns'of French cruelty are numerous, and will only serve, to the Spaniards as so . many motives for revenge. • ";The fate ; ot Po'rtugal will shortly be decided. and every thing may be 'hoped for ,from' the uncon querable bravery of British soldiers. They yesterday' gave the enemy an earnest of what be may expect from them in a general engagement. This was of itself a smart affair, and, to borroW a French phrase, °covered the English with glory.' It was..the ob ject of the enemy to cut off the division wider Gcn• , Cranford, and prevent it from joining the main army. With this view -they assembled a force ( of ,8000 infantry and .3600 cavalry„ which, at about three o'clock in the morning, attacked our advanced guard, consisting of 600 cavalry and 4000 infantry only, in the vicmity;of Almeida. • " It was notZtill night that this contest terminated,- and' when it is cor.sidered that during the conflict the Britishrepulsed the enemy in three distinot tackS, at the point of the bayonet, on the bridge which passes over the Coa, you must suppose the carnage amongst the enemy must be great. The British ultimately retired, which was all they want" ed. Since the British have retired - , the enemy too investing Almeida. The two armies are now todk ing at each' other, as if contemplating on the awful crisis so near at hanch The combined forces are gul l of confidence." The following anecdote is extracted from a, very interesting account of the late insurrect-on in the Tyrol, by Major Muller, one of the Deputies froth that country to • our Government : " Among the pr4soners who were taken. at Wegschaide, was tide son of Commandant Sp ec kba c h er , on ly, twe l ve year ° of age,.who, when ordered by his father w tetteat , would• not. comply till he had 'shot the Bavarian General, who was riding along the front of his awl' The youth and bravery of this boy' having at tracte4 the nofiee and admir,:tion . of the enemy's otticers , he was presented to the'King of Bavaria, w!% O asked hire,," Will you shoot any more Bdvariatts ?" TO, youth; with all the bluntness and intrepidity hit charac,teriie his country, not. only, replied in o ' B adirmalive, but.added, " and you too, if you coo to the Tyrol.", . - • • , . Sorne commotions are said to have broken out ill Holland, when the Dccree for annexing that coup' try to France was published. At Zwolt, Deventer' Zutphen, Doesnerg, and several other places, where an overwhelming military force was not present , the orders issued on occasion of the incorporati on were resisted by force,. and several lives were 0 conseqnence lost on both sides. At Zutphen, J l , persons were apprehended and imprisoned, t c) ; aiding in these proceedings,-. but the prison v° forced by the, populace during the night, 'and men released. Private letters from Sicily mention, that wil d/ MLYRAT Was at. Reggio, he made an aquatic exc . ur sion ; but being pursued by our gun-boats, his ve sel run ashore, and under the impulse oftetror 10 jumped overboard, and bad to wade to land t' t° his neck in water. • • On • the Ist instant his • Majesty's sloop B" e7i i i whilst Cruizing offßlankenburgh, picked up a silt' boat, with four French prisoners on board her, was had made their e•Jcape from one of the.prison at Chatham. They hpd been at sea four 0)1 without any-thing to subsist on, excepting a few ° d r of wheat,.and were consequently nearly exhAeste , They effeEted 'then - escape by slipping down these s ., at the head, and swimming on shore, where they took the boat and proceeded to sea. How cut tivb, , it must_nave been to them to have been picked U P' within sight of their own shore. a" r 4 On Friday the . Offiters of the King's own Sia -° . Militia gave a splendid Fete to most of the no llii f i r ty t and gentry in the neighbourhood, at the WO' Barracks, Windsor. • The corps of the' 'Duke Of BauNswica 06 ", quartered at Mallow and Fer t noY, h a ve receive ) °r tiers to embark immediately at Cork for Portogi ni ; o r We haVe received letters (overland) froth squadron in the Persian Guiph, to the 23d 0f " , r .es bruary last: The :desiruction of triT - pirate h' ie if had been completed, and the ships were eql-be to return to BoMbay by the middle of March.' e ra Ch ovine, Captain WAno.vaiGuT, was to real. t " - for another service of six months. t t The Barbadoel, Capt. HODosoN, will sail 5 - 3° F o• from Portsmouth; for Madras. Commission al 40s , GET goes out in her to the ..Naval-yara at 1 \ 43 "; ► The Fort C.apt. PAititisa, for CJI eLl ' (O will 'sail with the Mediterranean convoy. • 0 0 11 A Proclamation by the D u k e o f R EGGI 0, at land, prohibits, under the severest penaltie6l allte, tempts, or, the part 'of the inhabitants, to enljg r ` l NATIONAL DEBT,--An account of-the Ileu- t 6 i th of the Nationahbebt, from t h e I s t o f August, it to the I st of. August, is to : 163,5 2, 6 , 4 ? 23,57 „,br ~z 0 54 7 , 0' ° 11 , I,o7c'el ) 43/ Total 19 8,549 at i e The sum to be expended in the ensuing is 2,728,026i._ 19s. Redeemed by. the Sinking Fund- . Transferred by Land- tax redeemed Ditto by Life Annuities. purcii4ed - On Account . of Great 13iitain Ditto . of Ireland _ Ditto of Imperial Loan ,- Ditto of Loan to Portugal z lb ; !el lili .W . (J Pei Pry a~ as th e r~